{"id":4244,"date":"2018-10-23T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/23\/denial-pride-how-china-changed-its-language-xinjiangs-camps\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:07:52","slug":"denial-pride-how-china-changed-its-language-xinjiangs-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/denial-pride-how-china-changed-its-language-xinjiangs-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"From denial to pride: how China changed its language on Xinjiang’s camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s state broadcaster CCTV last week offered a look inside Xinjiang\u2019s controversial internment camps.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 15-minute <\/a><\/span>segment<\/span><\/a> journalists visit the Hotan City Vocational Skills Education and Training Centre where they teach students Mandarin, China\u2019s various legal codes, and job-relevant skills, according to a city official, reciting almost verbatim a description previously given in Chinese state media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students are shown learning cosmetology, baking, sewing, woodworking and more. The cafeteria is decorated with balloons and bunting, and all the dorms have air conditioning. One young woman tells an interviewer woodenly: \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t here studying, I don\u2019t even want to imagine where I\u2019d be. Maybe I would have followed those religious extremists into a life of crime. The government and party found me in time and saved me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n